Good Way to Start off 2023

"The Soft of Your Eyes", song I wrote for Tina in 1968, just added to new, short "Best of Wrapped" Spotify playlist.

And see 16 other playlists "The Soft of Your Eyes" was added to in the past few years.

"The Soft of Your Eyes" added to 19 Spotify playlists in the past three years (updated)

 
"The Soft of Your Eyes" (from Twice Upon A Rhyme) 26th on this list

And here are four more: You May Sweetly Ask  ... 70s (first half) ... NTS Heaven and Earth Magic ... Thanksgiving 2021 

And here's one from back in April 2021: Cosmic Country Outsiders

And here's another one added later in December 2021: True

And five from January 2022:   I Don't Want To Live the Wrong Life ...  NTS 3 ...  sagit brother ... My Shazam Tracks ... Soft Sands FM

And two from February 2022: Blue Sands ... pain au chocolat

And one from March 2022: Solibo Magnifique

And one from July 2022: Heart Full of Love

And one from December 2022: Best of Wrapped

And one from January 2023: Music for Watering the Mind

And one from January 2024: Down Home Comforts <3

Thank you!

"The Soft of Your Eyes" on new Folk/Psychedelic Rock NTS Radio Playlist

 

Paul Levinson       Hey, it's been a while since I wrote to you about a song from Twice Upon A Rhyme, my 1972 album reissued on remastered vinyl by Whiplash/Sound of Salvation Records about a decade ago.   But I just found out that "The Soft of Your Eyes," the song I wrote for Tina back in the late 1960s, was added to Jocelyn Romo's folk/psychedelic rock Heaven and Earth playlist on NTS Radio where it's been getting tons of play, alongside songs by Gerry Rafferty and Don Everly.  Meanwhile ... Peter Jackson's documentary The Beatles: Get Back is amazing and life-changing and I highly recommend it!  I review all three parts here (written reviews) and here (audio podcast reviews). Songs from Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time played this and last year on Plastic Tales from the Marshmallow Dimention, WNYU-FM Radio Dig Vinyl's Melodic Distraction playlist, American Dream with Yvonne Howard Margolin's Destinies, 24 & 31 July, 7 Aug 2020, WUSB-FM Radio Howard Margolin's 37th Anniversary Destinies, and 38th Anniversary Destinies, WUSB-FM Radio Carl Thien's WZBC show (8 Dec 2020, and earlier this year) Patrick Rands' Abstract Terrain show on WZBC-FM Radio in Boston Kevin Anthony's Psychedelic Jukebox Captain Phil's WUSB-FM show.  Plus the following stations: Bellarmine Radio, Louisville, KY; KDWG Radio, Dillon, Montana; The End, Cleveland, OH; SYN Radio, Melbourne, Australia You can get all the Welcome Up music, any time, here: Listen to entire album FREE on Bandcamp and Spotify Order multi-color vinyl from Light in the Attic CDs in stock - get them here And here's Twice Upon a Rhyme: Listen to entire album FREE on Bandcamp and Spotify Original, sealed 1972 HappySad Records vinyl New remastered Sound of Salvation vinyl from Those Old Records Here's a one-hour virtual concert I did in April 2020 with songs from both albums at HELIOsphere: Beyond the Corona.   Here's a video of me singing "Alpha Centauri" at my virtual concert at Amazingcon in June 2020.  More video clips from Welcome Up here and here. Welcome Up Reviews and Interviews: Jon Pruett says in Ugly Things Magazine that Welcome Up is "eight slices of interstellar delight". Joseph Neff says in The Vinyl District that Welcome Up "hits the ear as the best kind of long-delayed follow-up to a phenomenon of cultish proportions ... sounding like nothing else on the current scene." Taro Miyasugi says Welcome Up is "a stunning folk pop album with gorgeous late 60s elements like vintage velveteen cloth..."  Evan LeVine observes about Welcome Up that "any fan of Twice Upon A Rhyme will be overjoyed by it... As otherworldly, mystical and far-out as the subject matter may be, the songs burst with love and warmth and humanity."  in-depth interview about Welcome Up in Klemen Breznikar's Psychedelic Baby Magazine  audio Bear Tones podcast in which I talk about Welcome Up and Twice Upon A Rhyme. I talk with John Anealio -- with whom I wrote "If I Traveled to the Past" and "Tau Ceti" -- about those songs on The Functional Nerds podcast. Looking a bit into the future ... I may be doing another new album in 2022 ... stay tuned!     Music   Samantha (from Welcome Up) If I Traveled To The Past (from Welcome Up)   MORE MUSIC     Press   "Welcome Up is ... eight slices of interstellar delight."— Jon Pruett, Ugly Things Magazine, Aug 15, 2020     Connect

"Merri Goes Round" Played on The Music Authority Today

Robbie Rist + Don Frankel = Sundial Symphony

That's right -- starting at 4 minutes 54 seconds into the first hour of today's Music Authority program, you'll hear Sundial Symphony singing "Merri Goes Round," a song I wrote with Ed Fox in 1971, recorded back then by a studio group I put together called The Trousers.

Sundial Symphony's version was recorded in 2016, and released on Big Stir Records in 2019.  I should mention that Sundial Symphony consists of Robbie Rist (yep, Cousin Oliver) and Don Frankel.  Don played keyboard on lots of the tracks on my 1972 LP Twice Upon A Rhyme, and accordion on "If I Traveled to the Past" and "Tau Ceti" on Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time, released on Old Bear Records and Light in the Attic Records (vinyl) in 2020.

James Jim Prell, DJ for The Music Authority, says all the songs he plays are chosen by "algorithm".  But I owe him a big thank you anyway, for presiding over that algorithmic choice!

• listen to today's Music Authority (any time) -- Merri Goes Round starts at 4min54sec, and there are lots of other great songs in this episode
• Twice Upon A Rhyme on Spotify and Bandcamp
• Welcome Up on Spotify and Bandcamp
• reviews of these albums and more

Spun Dreams on Bandcamp

Before Twice Upon A Rhyme and Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time, there were Spun Dreams: studio and home demos, most from mid to late 60s, sunshine pop with a bit of an edge and a psychedelic flavor, especially as you get into the album. My group back then was The New Outlook, a folk-rock trio. Spun Dreams has been streaming for almost a decade on Spotify, Apple Music, and all the usual places. But now it's up on Bandcamp, with all kinds of details on songs and tracks that I haven't mentioned before. Details in the track credits about how the likes of Ellie Greenwich, Mike Rashkow, Tash Howard, and dj Murray the K figured in these songs. And check out the bonus items for at least one special photo I haven't laid eyes on since 1966.

Apple Music Links for Twice Upon A Rhyme & Welcome Up

 

Great New Review of Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time

 thank you Jon Pruett and Ugly Things Magazine

Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time  - digital, CD, vinyl

Great New Review of "Welcome Up" / Live, Free, Online Concert this Saturday

Paul Levinson Hey, a great new review of Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time went up by Joseph Neff on The Vinyl District yesterday.  What I especially love about it is the way Neff puts Welcome Up in the context of Twice Upon A Rhyme, concluding that Welcome Up "hits the ear as the best kind of long-delayed follow-up to a phenomenon of cultish proportions; unstrained, totally comfortable in the present time, but sounding like nothing else on the current scene."  Read the whole review, with thoughts about each song -- such as, "the album’s standout is really “Picture Postcard World,” which infuses the soft-pop cheer with persistent psych swirl (getting downright underwater toward the end) as Levinson hits just the right level of crooner" -- over here. And speaking of Welcome Up and Twice Upon A Rhyme, I'll be singing songs from both, as well as a couple of new songs, at a virtual (online) totally FREE one-hour concert at Amazingcon on Saturday, 6-7pm.  Although the concert is totally free, you do need to register beforehand, which you can do here.  You register just once for the entire three-day online convention, which will feature all kinds of science fiction stars, whom you can see here.  In addition to my concert, I'll be on several panels, and also reading from my novelette, Robinson Calculator -- my complete schedule is here.  What a treat it would be to see some of you on that Zoom screen on Saturday! Songs from Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time played on Dig Vinyl's Melodic Distraction playlist, American Dream with Yvonne Howard Margolin's 37th Anniversary Destinies, WUSB Radio Carl Thien's WZBC show (scroll down to Part 2) Patrick Rands' Abstract Terrain show on WZBC Radio in Boston Kevin Anthony's Psychedelic Jukebox Captain Phil's WUSB-FM show.  Plus the following stations: Bellarmine Radio, Louisville, KY; KDWG Radio, Dillon, Montana; The End, Cleveland, OH; SYN Radio, Melbourne, Australia You can get all the Welcome Up music, any time, here: Listen to entire album FREE on Bandcamp & Spotify Order multi-color vinyl from Light in the Attic CDs in stock - get them here And here's Twice Upon a Rhyme: Listen to entire album FREE on Bandcamp & Spotify Original, sealed 1972 HappySad Records vinyl New remastered Sound of Salvation vinyl from Those Old Records Here's a one-hour virtual concert I did in April with songs from both albums at HELIOsphere: Beyond the Corona.   Video clips from Welcome Up here and here. More Welcome Up Reviews and Interviews: Taro Miyasugi says Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time is "a stunning folk pop album with gorgeous late 60s elements like vintage velveteen cloth..."  Evan LeVine observes about Welcome Up that "any fan of Twice Upon A Rhyme will be overjoyed by it... As otherworldly, mystical and far-out as the subject matter may be, the songs burst with love and warmth and humanity."  in-depth interview about Welcome Up in Klemen Breznikar's Psychedelic Baby Magazine  new audio Bear Tones podcast in which talk about Welcome Up and Twice Upon A Rhyme. And ... early warning:  another new review of Welcome Up in the next issue  (#54) of Ugly Things Magazine. Music Samantha (rough mix, from Welcome Up) If I Traveled To The Past (rough mix, from Welcome Up) MORE MUSIC Press "Welcome Up (Songs of Space and Time) is a contemporary dispatch, firmly sent. It hits the ear as the best kind of long-delayed follow-up to a phenomenon of cultish proportions; unstrained, totally comfortable in the present time, but sounding like nothing else on the current scene."— Joseph Neff, The Vinyl District, Jun 10, 2020 Connect Update Contact Info      Unsubscribe      Report Abuse      Privacy Physical inquiries can be sent to: 65 Shirley Lane, 9146596160, White Plains, NY, 10607, USA If our email is in your Spam/Junk Folder, please add Levinson.paul@gmail.com to your address book. Powered by  Fan Reach